Being Belgian with Bashir – Le Soir
“Nobody – nobody – leaves their country for no reason,” asserts Bashir Abdi, who has brought Belgium’s fame to the highest international level. His testimony brings us back to us, the Belgians of origin, the difficulty of feeling integrated, even on a “good”.
By Béatrice Delvaux
Lhe migrants are not just the masses counted at the borders or the anonymous deaths in the Mediterranean and the English Channel, which we hasten to forget as quickly as we remembered that they continued to put their lives on the line. over our quiet days. Easy to caricature, deny or ignore their fate when one is only confronted with their polemical or statistical reality. It becomes much more complex and rich when a particular destiny presents itself to us.
This is the gift given to us by Bashir Abdi, Belgian bronze medalist in the marathon at the Tokyo Games and European record holder in this discipline. In our “Elementary Roots” interview this weekend, Bashir tells us – you – his story, which begins as, as a little boy, he flees the hell of Mogadishu, Somalia, with his father and siblings, without knowing where they are going, without being able to tell their mother.
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